From: Aleksei Guzev <aleksei.guzev@...>
Date: 2001-07-12T18:57:49+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17706] RE:  WIN32OLE

Any "crashing" example? I'd like to test my WIN32OLE against them.

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# From: MikkelFJ [mailto:mikkelj-anti-spam@post1.dknet.dk] 
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# Subject: [ruby-talk:17633] WIN32OLE
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# Have anyone successfully  used the win32ole library for ruby?
# I have been testing with the 1.6.1 windows installer 
# distribution and recently with the 1.6.4 distribution.
# 
# The first time I gave up on it because it couldn't iterate 
# without crashing. In the latest release there is a comment 
# about having fixed the each operation, so I guess that should 
# do it, and it also works fine now.
# 
# But then I get method not found errors when working with ole 
# automation (i.e. script friendly) COM interfaces when there 
# is an optional property in the interface.
# 
# Now I could understand it, if it worked consistently - but on 
# one machine, it fails if all arguments are optional, on 
# another machine it fails earlier on a method that has an 
# optional property which is not the first argument.
# 
# This is disappointing: In 2 lines of code you can dump the 
# names of all tables in an Access database. But that is no 
# good if the api isn't stable.
# 
# In my experience win32ole does not appear mature for 
# production usage. And this is really a shame. It would be 
# nice to use Ruby on the windows platform, but without proper 
# .Net or COM integration, it is simply too circumstantial to 
# use - even if Ruby by far is the easiest language to write 
# extensions in (except .Net using C++ managed extensions).
# 
# Mikkel
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